Researchers argue that ‘at least 40%’ of the bloated x86 ISA could be removed and emulated to improve CPU efficiency

The x86 instruction set architecture (ISA) doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. We’ve had people declaring the impending ascent of Arm or RISC-V for years now, and the market hasn’t budged. By and large, people still want to buy Intel and AMD systems running x86 Windows. So, maybe what’s needed isn’t replacement but reform, and…

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Company That Cleared Sega’s Offices Of “Stolen” Nintendo Dev Kits Is A Charity, New Evidence Reveals

“SEGA’s position amounts to accusing a charity of theft”. We recently reported that Sega used the British Police to recover a selection of dev kits and consoles it had “negligently disposed of” from a business owner who resells items from office clearances. The person in question purchased the items, along with a selection of undumped…

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I now know what my life has been missing and it’s a set of rotary encoders sunk straight into the top of a mechanical-keebed Framework laptop, for some reason

If you’re hunting for a laptop with a great-feeling keyboard, good luck. I’ve tried hundreds of them at this point, and I’m usually left disappointed. YouTuber Flurples knows the feeling, it seems—but rather than crying about it, they’ve instead decided to modify their Framework 13 laptop to include not just a proper, fully-fledged mechanical keeb,…

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Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag remake reaches unprecedented levels of leaked, despite Ubisoft’s best efforts to stomp on yapping actors

Black Flag Remake leaks can only be called that if they come from the Montreuil suburb of Paris—otherwise they’re just sparkling Assassin’s Creed gossip. But good news: the games industry’s most open of open secrets (but that Ubi is still willing to threaten to sue its star over) has let a little more info slip…

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